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...Emmons moved his gun into position, the bullet left the barrel prematurely. "The only thing I can figure is that my finger touched the trigger and set it off," Emmons says. "It was an accident." His shot went wild, and Emmons scored a 4.4. Two bullets, two brushes with Olympic infamy. "I walked away and was like, 'Crap, it happened again,' " he says. "I thought, 'Goddam, this is crazy...
...predictable: A frustrated Russian government feeling increasingly encircled as NATO's membership expanded steadily eastward, its coffers engorged by $110-a-barrel oil, facing a pesky neighbor - and former Russian imperial territory - cozying up to the United States and inviting U.S. troops in to train its soldiers. Whether or not Washington or Tbilisi could have avoided the Russian invasion, the very fact that the U.S. has no desire for war with Russia should have acted as a brake on Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's annual (since 2004) August skirmishes with pro-Moscow separatists in South Ossetia, which triggered last week...
...with Carr sitting opposite his editor at a Minneapolis business magazine, being given a choice between quitting drugs and getting fired. He picks the latter and promptly goes on a bender--a long, violent night that ends, as he recalls it, with him on the wrong end of the barrel of a gun. It is March 1987, and Carr is 30 years old. He has been doing cocaine for nearly a decade, and another year and a half will elapse before he goes in for his fifth and final detox...
...Infrastructure is an ugly word - unless the bridge you take to work just collapsed. In politics, it has become a euphemism for pork-barrel spending. In the pre-Newt era of Democratic congressional dominance, it smacked of payoffs to big city machines and construction unions. That is one of the reasons Democratic candidates for President have soft-pedaled this basic governmental responsibility in the Reagan pendulum cycle. In the 2000 campaign, Al Gore proposed a new sort of infrastructure spending: a massive alternative-energy program - $15 billion a year for 10 years - to replace the country's dependence on fossil...
...precise rock on which the talks foundered - if it hadn't been one, it would have been another - was less significant than the evident power and influence that developing nations now have on the international economic agenda. Seven years ago, before Iraq, the subprime meltdown and $140-a-barrel oil, the world economic order was easier to maneuver. But the intervening years have seen huge growth - and concomitant influence - outside the U.S., Japan and Western Europe...